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US Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrests 44Published: Jun 15, 2012"A sting operation by U.S. agents led to the arrests of 44 "egregious immigration law violators" in the Chicago area.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement say all of the arrested had prior criminal convictions ranging from arson and battery to drugs and weapons possessions charges."
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The Great Immigration Reform MiragePublished: Jun 14, 2012"What was true in Bush’s second term will probably be true in a hypothetical second Obama term as well. There might be a bipartisan coalition for a relatively limited measure like the Dream Act, which provides a path to citizenship for college graduates who were brought to America as minors. But if Jeb Bush Republicans and Obama Democrats try to fast track

Obama's immigration policy a shell gamePublished: Jun 13, 2012"The Obama administration calls its policy on illegal immigrants "prosecutorial discretion." In reality, we're finding out, it amounts to business as usual, deporting huge numbers of hard-working immigrants.
The objective of the new "policy" announced last year was to fool immigration reform advocates into thinking that the administration had grown a

Arizona orders immigration law training for policePublished: Jun 13, 2012"Arizona Governor Jan Brewer on Tuesday ordered the redistribution of materials to train police to enforce the state's tough immigration crackdown, in a sign that she expects the Supreme Court to endorse the measure in coming days.
Signed by Brewer in April 2010, the law sought to drive illegal immigrants out of Arizona, although most of it was blocked by

Staunch GOP platform adds reform immigration plankPublished: Jun 12, 2012"The Texas Republican Party softened its platform on illegal immigration and has become one of the first in the nation to call for an expanded temporary workers’ program to legalize the status of immigrants, supporters said Saturday.
As other states offer punitive and harsh answers, Texas Republicans can lead the way for a “law- and market-based approach,”

Jeb Bush: GOP primaries boxed in Romney on immigrationPublished: Jun 12, 2012"Other Republicans, including former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, have suggested that this GOP wouldn't nominate Reagan, who raised taxes and made grand bargains with Democrats on immigration and fiscal issues. Bush also repeated criticism of the "tone" of the discussion of immigration issues.
Bush said that Mitt Romney's move to channel Republicans' anger

Let them stay here, Mr. President Published: Jun 11, 2012"President Obama: Please sign an executive order stopping the arrest and deportation of immigrant youth.
That, in short, is the demand of undocumented immigrants sitting in at his Denver campaign headquarters. And they are threatening to spread the protest nationwide, to the chagrin of some Obama supporters."
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Obama's Plan For Immigrant Deportation Review Produces Little ResultPublished: Jun 11, 2012"But fewer than 2 percent of the more than 400,000 cases under review so far have been canceled, according to the New York Times report. That has frustrated immigrant advocates already disillusioned by the fact that President Obama has overseen a record number of deportations during his tenure, more than 1.1 million and counting. The prosecutorial